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Blizzard to Boll - DENIED!

Posted by timothy on from the no-cheese-for-you dept.

Drathos writes "From MTV Movies Blog by way of WoW Insider: Everyone's least favorite director, Uwe Boll approached Blizzard about making a World of Warcraft movie. Their response? "We will not sell the movie rights, not to you ... especially not to you.""

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  1. Re:I love Uwe by elrous0 · · Score: 1, Troll
    His movies are nowhere NEAR as bad as they're made out to be, even taken at face value. The dialogue is usually a little hokey, with some bad casting and cheap FX, but they're not even close to the worst stuff out there. If you want to see TRULY bad filmmaking, check out just about any Sci-fi channel original movie (with the NOTABLE exception of the brilliant Battlestar Galactica remake). At worst, Uwe's films are mediocre. But they're also, by and large, pretty fun and delightfully tongue-in-cheek.

    For example, how anyone can watch "House of the Dead" and not laugh at the spliced-in videogame footage or the characters getting hit by zombies and flying 100 feet through the air (as if fired out of a cannon) is beyond me. If you don't get the joke watching that, then you're never going to understand Boll at all. Boll cast Jürgen Prochnow as the ship captain, for god's sake! How can you see that and not get that he's having a bit of fun with it?

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  2. This news by Vexor · · Score: 0, Troll

    was so yesterday. Get with it /.

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  3. LF story... by TiggertheMad · · Score: 0, Troll

    I have to agree in a way, I've always liked the Warcraft series games and have always felt Warcraft III had one of the best storylines of any game I'd played.

    Did you actually play WOW? It is teppid. The only story that it has are one paragraph snippets of text that accompany quests, and rare scripted events. Sure there is more storyline than say, a game of pac-man, but you have not played many games if you think there is a detailed storyline there.

    Perhaps if you are a lore freak that has read every book that they have churned out the quests might might make more sense, but I think I learned more about the world's lore reading a single article on wowwiki than two years of playing the game itself.

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